A/N: Sorry for the delay everyone! Here's the new chapter of the story. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Glee (but how awesome was Glee's episode last week?!) :)


Sometimes, things don't happen the way that you expect them to. Finn had taught me that lesson. I had expected Finn to come to New York and we would just stay friends. Instead, we were back together, in love, telling each other secrets about what had happened when we were apart. I told Finn I missed the way that his cologne smelled. Finn told me that he missed my smile and the way that it would brighten up his day. Although the High School kids were still out of school for another three days, NYADA students had to head back early, in order to get ready for the Winter Showcase. It was where we invited our friends and our family members, where we shined and where we sang. I wasn't looking forward to go back to school, but looking at Finn that morning in my bed was my motivation—my motivation for me to hurry up with the day and to come home and lay down with him to talk about our day together. There was just one thing—Kurt and Blaine didn't know that we were back together.


Rachel was busy in the kitchen in her dance leotard, eating a piece of toast, pondering over the evening's events. After Finn and Rachel came home from the bar, they spent time with one another, all by themselves until they remembered that Kurt was coming home early from work. Of course Finn and Rachel had to pretend that they weren't a couple in front of Kurt. Rachel just didn't want Kurt to feel bad that he wasn't with Blaine. But as quickly as Kurt came, he left saying that he was going out to dinner alone and that Rachel and Finn should "have fun." That made Rachel curious about where Kurt was going which made her want to ask questions over breakfast this morning. Kurt entered the room whistling to a tune of the Broadway classic "I Dreamed a Dream", something that caught Rachel's attention. Kurt only did that when there were good things happening in his life. Maybe he was finally back together with Blaine!

"Good morning, someone sounds like they are in a happy mood." Rachel handed Kurt some toast, a smile flashing on her face.

"I had the most amazing night last night." Kurt took a bite of the bread, grinning at Rachel.

"Ooh, does this have to do with Blaine?" Rachel couldn't help but get excited. Kurt stopped for a moment, shaking his head at Rachel's comment.

"Blaine? Why did you think that I was hanging out with Blaine?" Kurt wondered.

"Well, because Blaine's in New York at least until next week and I heard from Blaine that you were working things out with him." Rachel explained.

"Well, we're not working things out." Kurt shook his head. "I mean, he wants us to and we're going to try but—I was talking about the dinner date I went on with Taylor last night."

"You mean the Taylor that stood you up a couple of nights ago when Blaine and Finn came to New York?" Rachel's face turned serious to her friend. "I really don't think that you should date Taylor."

"Why not?" Kurt asked, unsure why Rachel was so into not wanting him to go out with the guy who obviously had a crush on him.

"Because, what about Blaine. I don't think it's fair to rub all of this in his face when he's still here." Rachel explained. "I mean, you can be happy but I just wish that you would try to work all of this out with him. At least forgive him."

"Look at you and Finn. You didn't work things out with him." Kurt went to grab his scarf from the coat hanger. "Why are you being a hypocrite?"

"I'm not being a hypocrite." Rachel exclaimed.

"Well, you're not exactly together with Finn. And even if you were, what were you going to do when the High School break is over? Finn's just going to go back to McKinley and help the Glee Club win another National Championship." Kurt wrapped the scarf around his neck and placed on his jacket, noticing Rachel's face looking disappointed. Rachel remembered that Finn did mention the fact that he was working with the Glee Club for three months. What was Rachel going to do then?

"Well, at least I don't have to worry about that." Rachel softly said. Kurt grabbed his bag before heading out the door.

"Well, I have to go to work. Have fun at school." Kurt closed the door behind him, Rachel staring at the door looking worried. Finn was going to leave again, and Rachel couldn't stop him. Here she was, thinking that she could try to work things out with him this one week in New York but Finn was off and running again, back to McKinley to take care of the Glee Club. Rachel didn't notice Finn entering the kitchen, noticing the toast on the plate.

"Hey." Finn's smile grew wide, seeing Rachel in her leotard. "Boy, don't you look pretty?" Rachel turned around, a forged smile forming but Finn knew that her smile wasn't real. "Is something wrong?"

"I forgot that you were going back to Lima, Ohio." Rachel sat down at the breakfast table, unsure of what she should do.

"Yeah, that's right…the Glee Club. I forgot to mention that at Breakfast yesterday." Finn said looking at her, wondering why it was a problem. "What's the matter?"

"Don't you get it Finn? This is a huge problem." Rachel sighed. "Just as soon as things started to get good again, there you go again in three days back to Lima while I'm stuck here in New York." Finn honestly wasn't seeing the issue.

"Rachel, there's not a problem here All right. Yes, I'm going back to Lima to teach the Glee Club but I'm not going to be gone for three months straight. I'll come and visit every weekend if I have to, and every time that there's another holiday." Finn looked into Rachel's eyes, hoping that she was seeing it his way. "Things are going to be difficult for the next three months, I know—but I'm willing to work this out if you are." Rachel looked deep into Finn's deep brown eyes, a real smile forming this time. She was going to have to put her worry in the back of her mind, and hope for the best for the next three months.

"You know these next three days are going to be hard for me." Rachel told him. "I just got used to you sleeping by my side again."

"And I got used to that too." Finn chuckled, running a hand through Rachel's brown hair. "But we'll get through this, we always do." Rachel nodded her head, leaning in to kiss her boyfriend. Rachel got up from the chair, looking at the clock. She was going to be late for school.

"I'm going to be late for Cassandra July's dance class. Great." Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Come on, I'll take you there and I'll explain that it's my fault." Finn said.

"You don't have to do that." Rachel shook her head, but Finn wasn't having any of that.

"I want to take you to school. It will be fun." Finn pressed Rachel. Rachel thought for a moment then nodded her head.

"Fine, if you want to." Rachel walked to the living room to grab her bag from the table.

"And when you finish school then you will have the most amazing lunch possible." Finn promised her.

"Please don't tell me that it's going to be made by you." Rachel pretended to shudder in fear.

"Nope, I'll probably make reservations at Olive Garden or something. Just for you." Finn led Rachel to the door, while Rachel leaned up to place a kiss on Finn's cheek.

"And that's why I love you." Rachel walked out the door with Finn following. He was sure that he had solved the problem for now, but he did begin to worry the more that Rachel brought it up. What if the next three months were the make it or break it point of their relationship. Finn had to show Rachel that he was serious about being with her even though they were far away—and that was when he had an idea.


Brittany was currently in her room reading cheerleading magazines, trying to get moves so that she could upstage everyone when it was time to go back to school in three days—when she heard a knock at the door. Brittany stood up, from her bed, walked to the room door only to find Santana there holding a pen and paper. Brittany wasn't confused that Santana was there. They had sung in Lima Bean yesterday to Kitty about some kid named Robert—or something like that. She didn't get what the point of the song was.

"Santana? What are you doing here?" Brittany questioned.

"I'm here because I need to come up with a plan on how to make Kitty wish she never tried to stand up to me. And I needed somewhere to think since you have just as much to do with it as I do." Santana walked in to sit on Brittany's bed.

"Well if we're going to think about this then we have an hour. " Brittany said before pointing towards her tabby cat. "Lord Tubbington's shoe tying lesson is at noon."

"Wait, your teaching Lord Tubbington how to tie shoes? Santana wondered.

"Yes, so is there something that you need?" Brittany asked.

"I was thinking of the multiple ways that we can get Kitty back. I thought of ten million ideas…and then I filtered out the ones that would send us to jail." Santana handed Brittany the piece of paper for her to read. Brittany skimmed through the paper only to find one thing on the list: toilet papering Kitty's house.

"Why are we going to toilet paper her house?" Brittany held the paper looking confused.

"Because if we toilet paper her house then she'll get the message not to mess with us." Santana shrugged her shoulders.

"Wow, you lost your touch." Brittany said. Santana looked taken aback at Brittany's comment, not sure what she meant by it.

"What do you mean I lost my touch?" Santana questioned.

"What I mean by that is that the real Santana wouldn't care what the consequences were. She would attack. The real Santana wouldn't just resort to throwing paper in Kitty's window, although if we could make a map with the paper towel about where to find a leprechaun afterwards, I'd be all for it." Brittany tapped her chin thoughtfully before an idea popped into her mind. "I have an idea."

"What's the idea?" Santana became interested.

"All right, here's the idea. How about at cheerleading practice at school, we make Kitty look like she's dating everyone in the school." Brittany suggested. Santana looked shocked at the fact that Brittany thought of it herself. Brittany's brain didn't usually have the best ideas.

"So you want us to trash Kitty's reputation?" Santana let out a small grin. "That's brilliant."

"She already did it to mine and she's planning on doing it to yours so, I think that this would be the perfect way to get her back. Like they said in the old days, a brain for a brain." Brittany smiled.

"I think you mean an eye for an eye." Santana clarified.

"Yeah, that will work too." Brittany pointed at Santana writing down her idea in purple crayon. Santana couldn't help but smile at Brittany while she wrote. They were going to get Kitty back, if it was the last thing that they did.


"I don't get it, where are you taking me?" Rachel looked over to Finn who was holding her hand, pulling her to a location. Finn had picked Rachel up from school like he promised but instead of taking her to a restaurant for lunch he started pulling her downtown-all the way to Brooklyn.

"It's a surprise." A grin released from Finn's lips, watching Rachel's confused expression. Once they reached the karaoke bar, Rachel looked up at the name and back at Finn, not sure what they were doing there.

"Finn, why are we at the karaoke bar for lunch? We can always come here." Rachel became muddled.

"Because I asked the guy if I could sing here for the lunch rush. He surprisingly said yes, considering he never heard me sing." Finn led Rachel inside of the bar, placing her in one of the seats. "All right, I want you to sit there." Rachel obliged, looking over at the stage as Finn headed up there to let Rachel know how much this week had meant to him and how much he wanted to be with her. Finn grabbed the microphone, staring out at the crowd with a grin before focusing his attention on none other than Rachel. "This song is for my girlfriend Rachel. I'm leaving in a couple of days back to Ohio while she stays in New York and I wanted to sing her a song that comes from the heart, so I hope you like it." The music started to fill the room, causing Finn to open his mouth wide and sing.

Well I know it's kind of late
I hope I didn't wake you
But what I gotta say can't wait
I know you'd understand

Every time I try to tell you
The words just come out wrong
So I have to say I love you in a song

Yeah I know it's kind of strange
But every time I'm near you
I just run out of things to say
I know you'd understand

Every time I try to tell you
The words just come out wrong
So I have to say I love you in a song

Every time the time was right
All the words just come out wrong
So I have to say I love you in a song

Well I know it's kind of late
I hope I didn't wake you
But what I gotta say can't wait
I know you'd understand

But every time I'd try to tell you
The words just come out wrong
But I have to say I love you in a song

As soon as the music ended, the crowd began to cheer for Finn—and Rachel felt tears in her eyes. She wasn't crying because she was sad but she was crying because the song made her realize how much she meant to Finn. Finn got off the stage, walking over to Rachel hoping that the tears weren't sad.

"Why are you crying? Did the song make you sad or something?" Finn looked back at the stage hoping he could sing another song that would make Rachel happy. Rachel shook her head, placing her hand in Finn's.

"No, I'm not crying because I'm sad." Rachel smiled while a tear rolled down her cheek. "I'm crying because that was a beautiful song and it made me realize how much you love me. And I know how much that I love you." Rachel leaned up to place a kiss on Finn's lips, engulfing him with love. Finn smiled, hugging Rachel as tightly as he could. I'm sure going to miss this, Finn sighed. He loved being in New York with Rachel, but he wasn't sure that the long distance relationship was going to work. He really hoped that he did.